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Two Salt Lake County suburban mayoral contests have razor-thin margins, but residents who are eyeing results in those races and others shouldn’t expect to see vote totals shift Wednesday.
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In Bluffdale, partial returns showed incumbent Mayor Natalie Hall leading by only 13 votes against challenger Connie Pavlakis. In western Salt Lake County, former journalist Jesse Valdez clung to an 86-vote lead over Kearns City Council Vice Chair Tina Snow in the Kearns mayoral race.
Salt Lake County Clerk Lannie Chapman said the next batch of results for races in Utah’s most-populous county won’t be released until Thursday.
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On Wednesday, Chapman’s office was processing about 59,000 ballots, with the majority of those being received when drop boxes closed Tuesday night.
Chapman said she was unsure when her office would issue its final update on results, since election officials were still verifying signatures on the 33,000 ballots received from drop boxes on election night.